In re-reading, I wasn't especially clear.
Obviously expressing my anger, frustration etc. is not especially useful to anyone except for me.
One of my students who is 8 months pregnant has an F and is mad that I won't accept a piece of work that might have made her pass. She wants to fight it, which is whatever. But she hsn't been here to do friday's work or today's work so even if I accept the 10 point assignment from before ("I did it, I just forgot to turn it in") she will still fail because she's missing Friday and Today.
ARGH.
Also, it's the 66 absences this year and the 16 absences from my class alone and the fact that she took the class in the fall and failed that are the issues.
Not one fucking 10 point assignment.
These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For…
Speaking of Droids, the kids in my hometown have been at it again:
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Jesse, give me a day or two and it'll be on the way to you.
Woo hoo! Oh, but let me send you my work address to mail it to.
Oh, but let me send you my work address to mail it to.
Put in the Round Robin doc, maybe?
Hey!! My state rep in Lansing already answered my email from yesterday and I'm getting a Michigan flag for my Daisy troop!!
Oh God.
Check out the latest TeeFury design. Clever, right?
Now witness the fifth comment:
New board game?
Put in the Round Robin doc, maybe?
Oh yeah, I should have done that, too.
And I had to just learn to not let myself get angry or emotionally engaged with that frustration and slow down and look him in the face and see him as a person.
This has been a huge parenting lesson for me. I'm not actually a yeller, but I have found that raising my voice usually gets results - because they are shocked and scared. But a while back, Frisco started saying "that scared me" if/when I raised my voice. Which led me to ponder that I don't want him scared. So while I was never much of a yeller to begin with, I'm even less so now.
I do find myself talking a lot about "tone of voice" and "don't contradict" and so on. One thing I picked up from my mom (who is visiting this week) is to model for Ellie the tone of voice that I want, and then no move forward until she does it. It seems to be working for us and I like it because it's very clear to her what I want from her.
IOparentingN, Frisco has been doing great with potty training since we started letting him pee off the deck in our backyard. He loves it and has even started taking his diaper off to pee.
Outlook/Exchange, I hate you. Why can I not cancel a meeting properly? Or why does my boss not get them cancelled properly and I look like a doofus? Also, why do I stop being able to speak English when he asks me about it?
Sheesh.
AND someone else didn't get the cancellation. CURSE YOU TO THE HEAVENS!!!
I think all your cancellations are going to us. My boss keeps having entire series of repeating meetings cancelled whenever she tries to change any detail.
